The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
EDMUND BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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